SD-WAN Jobs in the North of England

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring SD-WAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SD-WAN over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 271 354
Rank change year-on-year -49 +83 +37
Permanent jobs citing SD-WAN 26 118 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.22% 0.65% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.17% 5.39% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10 92 67
10th Percentile £51,775 £47,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £54,063 £56,250 £44,273
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £72,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +52.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £84,919 £81,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -12.12%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

SD-WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,221 2,190 3,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.19% 12.10% 19.06%
Number of salaries quoted 912 1,683 1,246
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £34,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £47,313 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

SD-WAN
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing SD-WAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SD-WAN in the North of England.

Salary trend for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SD-WAN in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SD-WAN in the North of England

SD-WAN
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -60 15 £62,500 -10.71% 76
Yorkshire +20 10 £80,000 +25.49% 67
North East +42 1 £44,500 -44.26% 25
SD-WAN
England

SD-WAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
3 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (15.38%) Azure AI
4 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 4 (15.38%) IaaS
4 4 (15.38%) PaaS
4 4 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 4 (15.38%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 23 (88.46%) WAN
2 20 (76.92%) Firewall
3 10 (38.46%) DNS
4 8 (30.77%) Network Security
5 7 (26.92%) VPN
6 6 (23.08%) BGP
6 6 (23.08%) MPLS
6 6 (23.08%) OSPF
6 6 (23.08%) TCP/IP
7 5 (19.23%) Wireless
8 4 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (7.69%) DHCP
9 2 (7.69%) LAN
9 2 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (7.69%) SAN
9 2 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (7.69%) TACACS
10 1 (3.85%) EIGRP
10 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Data Lake
1 4 (15.38%) MySQL
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Manager
3 5 (19.23%) Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Network Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Network Security Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Security Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Security Technical Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Security Consultant
5 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Network Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Network Security Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Senior
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
1 5 (19.23%) Public Cloud
2 4 (15.38%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Migration
2 8 (30.77%) Project Delivery
3 7 (26.92%) Zero Trust
4 6 (23.08%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (23.08%) Project Management
4 6 (23.08%) Service Delivery
4 6 (23.08%) TOGAF
5 5 (19.23%) B2B
5 5 (19.23%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
5 5 (19.23%) ITIL
5 5 (19.23%) ITSM
5 5 (19.23%) Line Management
5 5 (19.23%) Network Architecture
5 5 (19.23%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (15.38%) Analytics
6 4 (15.38%) Data Integration
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) PowerShell
1 9 (34.62%) SQL
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) Bicep
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (26.92%) CCNP
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 4 (15.38%) CCSA
3 4 (15.38%) DBS Check
4 3 (11.54%) CCIE
5 2 (7.69%) CISSP
6 1 (3.85%) CCNA
6 1 (3.85%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) Hyper-V
3 4 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (23.08%) FortiGate
2 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 5 (19.23%) Ansible
3 5 (19.23%) WSUS
4 4 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Cisco
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 8 (30.77%) VMware
3 6 (23.08%) Meraki
4 5 (19.23%) Draytek
4 5 (19.23%) Fortinet
4 5 (19.23%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (15.38%) CheckPoint
5 4 (15.38%) Databricks
5 4 (15.38%) Palo Alto
5 4 (15.38%) Zscaler
6 2 (7.69%) Sophos
6 2 (7.69%) Synology
6 2 (7.69%) Veeam
7 1 (3.85%) Aruba
7 1 (3.85%) Juniper